finity

plural finities

1. rareuncountableThe state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.

   Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity.

   1899, Jack London, The White Silence

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   He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe […] He matched finity against the Infinite.

   1874, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 31, in Idolatry: A Romance

   In a very non-Aristotelian fashion, Nicholas of Cusa produced a synthesis of finity and infinity.

   1987, Julius Thomas Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stranger, →ISBN, page 37

   We […] labor to find our identity in the infinite in spite of our encumberment in finity.

   2006, Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Universal Divine Science: Spiritual Pedagogicals, →ISBN, page 106

   Synonyms: boundedness

2. countablerareSomething which is limited in number or scope.

   If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities.

   1837 September 2, “The Transcendalist's Dialogues: No. IX”, in The Shepherd, volume 3, number 10, page 79

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   And this condescension of infinite Perfection to the finities—to their imperfections, contingencies, and littlenesses—is the very result of its perfection.

   1884 January 28, “Prayer and Science”, in Methodist Quarterly Review (4th), volume 66, page 8